New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-07
THE CORN CROP SMALL.
GREAT DAMAGE BY PROLONGED DROUTH.
PASTURES BROWN AND BARE-THE SITUATION BET
TER IL kansas.

PASTURES BROWN AND BARE-THE SITUATION BET
TER IL kansas.
CHICAGO, Aug 6 (speeiaD.-The drouth still con-
tinues severe In Central Illinois. Wells and streams
drying up and farmers are oolg ed In many places
TO haul water for miles. Thousands VI acres OF lana
have been burned and incaculable damage has
been sustained In the burning OF hay grain. buildings
and fencing. Many fine hedge fences have been
destroyed. Over GOO acres were burned over In
Jackson County, much hay and machinery, fencing
ETC., being destroyed. vast tract has been burned
in Manhattan. The ponds and lakes are dried up and
the earth and vegetation are parched The condition
of country is becoming alarming and everybody Is
sending up prayers for nin.
From Rockford, Ill, the following statement re-
garling the crops of the southern tier OF Wisconsin
counties, and those Of Winnebago, Boone, Mcllenry
Ogc Davies, Stevenson, Carroll, DC Kalb and Kanc
counties In Illinois, IS from personal observ atlons
The yield OF small grains never known to be
90 light rs in the present season, and unless there
is an early and plentiful fall of rain there will DO
corn wouh mentioning. The yield Of oats and
barley, especially the latter, was never known to 10
light oats average twenty-five 10 thirty bushels
per acre this year, against seventy to eighty lass
season. The approximate general yield OF barley
is usually forty bushels 10 the This year, how
ever farmers consider themselves fortunate In having
harvested fifteen bushels to the and hundreds of
acres did not reach oven six bushels per acre.
Many farmers turned their stock into their fields OF
small grain, realizing the uscessness Of harvesting
It. The wheat showing IS fair and rye is a good
crop. Hay failure 1t did not average half
a ton per and tho pasture land is 50 dried up
that cattle with great difficulty continue TO exist.
All stock presents a poVr scrawny hali-staMdi
appearance Tho early Is doing somewhat
better than the lac yet without immediate rin that
will scarcely DO worth the picking
The effects OF the long drouth III Mclean County
almost beyond description. Tho last shower Of any
Inn. ,rfan yNha IN mo Ing Of y
and II was TOO light 10 relieve the then long pro
tractcd drouth The oats crop is the only that
escaped unhurt, and IL was excellent Wheat wa,
only slightly injured Hay Is half a crop, but
OF fine prality corn is ruined. 1t Is short and
faded and is beginning TO "hre.' Tie pastures
bare and yellow, many them actually dusty,
some time ago they we're generally abandoned Dy
feeders and neatly every one who has cattle has Tor
some Time been feeding them hay, shcat oats cut
glowing corn soi~ cut young trees and let tle
oatde crop the foliage. the cattle are losing flesh
rapidly, even ieed, and losing their mk
supply Thousands OF cattle have been ehppoi TO
saegs baS H pot@uG to feed tcm now ON rVey sm
large and small, dry. Even the Macknaw. generally
horn as near is mouth a. TacwcI County. Wells
are being dug and bored everywhere, and a general
. At Macomb, Iaris, BcIovIllc, Monmouth, Irince-
two other points rains have fallen, but The most the
farmers at those points oNpect Low is hall a crop
In Indiana the long continued dry weather makes
generally favorable. In Wisconsin the dry
weather f. damaging corn and pastures. The dairy
men will hold convention In Milwaukee tomorrow 70
alse the price Of milk, as feed has advanced TO such
a high figure.
4 dispatcn from Kansas City says: "Thc rains of
Wednesday night general all tho western
corn bolt from central Nebraska TO Indian Territory.
and they just I'm time TO good crop for
Kansas. gentleman who has just returned fNm
that state said this morning that the reports OF 30
and 40 per cent crops for Kansas this year were
false and that tho crop throughout the State In
good condition and only needed good rain TO insure
full Yield. This they had last night Advccs
have lcen received from correspondents who havo
personally examined the growing corn I'm Kansas
Arkansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Ninety thousand
acres along the line Of the Fort scott AMI Gulf Rail
road give general average OF thirty-sevcn and one
half bushels TWO million acre, along the wabash
and Missouri Pacific average nfty-hvo bushes.
100000 ares the Union Pacific viii AVERAGE
sixty bushels: 100000 along the Santa Re road
average twenty-five bushels $4,000 along Tho Southern
Kansas will average tlrty bushels: 10000 aero
along the Kansas Pacific average thirty five bushels.
Heavy rains for tho last twenty four hours have hccn
general throughout the entire belt and while ~
will not Increase the average given above, will make
the crop sure"
The railway men in CHICAGO fear great damage from
forest and prairie hrcs Dsuaichcs arr coming ir'
from all the re telling OF the damage already done
by fires started by flying sparks from passing engines